Haiku, Here's The Game...

With seventeen syllables, there's no room for error...

Developed in Japan toward the end of the 17th century, Haiku consists of three phrases of five, seven, and five syllables. The art is framing reality in an instant and lock the poet and reader into sharing the same experience.

Haiku may have developed from an even more ancient Japanese poetic style, katauta, which was the question-and-answer play of one god with another. Katauta follows the same haiku pattern of 5-7-5 syllables, for a total of 17 syllables; "the length of one human breath".

Here's "The Game":

Add your own ORIGINAL haiku poem in the comments. Write about whatever touches, moves and inspires you (G or PG please). The goal is to create a book for publication.

Results 1:	Community reads this Blog
Measure 1:	Visit Counter
Statistic 1:	100 visits in 24 hours

Results 2:	Community is touched, moved and inspired to create haiku
Measure 2:	Number of haiku entries
Statistic 2:	100 entries

Results 3:	Poems are compiled and published with proceeds to charity
Measure 3:	Publication of compliation book
Statistic 3:	1 book

Here are three I've written:

The Game
Over there, beats here.
Everything-nothing gets dull.
Therein is the game.

Life
It's not a preview
The Feature Presentation
Why are you waiting?

Transformation
Hmmm, just what does the
butterfly remember of
the caterpillar?

On your mark, get set, ...GO!

MSS